Tuesday, December 19, 2006 Ensign Front Page Volume 10, No. 100

Robertson Trading Company - revisited

 

Tuesday
December 19, 2006
by : Timothy W. Shire
LaRonge : A remarkable trading post where furs are sold and goods received in trade or a place where you can purchase just about anything you might need while living in northern Saskatchewan. Our story features some the outstanding art available.

Greenwater Report

 

Tuesday
December 19, 2006
by : Gerald Crawford
Greenwater Provincial Park : Looks like there is peace at the park as everyone is sorting out their Christmas and New Year plans. The Cove has a new manager and the Greenwater report will take a break over the holidays.

Red Chamber rehab

 

Tuesday
December 19, 2006
by : Robert Ede
Richmond Hill, Ontario : For most Canadians those chapters in Canadian studies they took in grade twelve were just a lot of mumbo jumbo and sadly most people paid little attention to the actual nature of Canada's constitution and the way it has dynamically evolved. Mr. Ede takes a shot at helping us to put our awareness back on track.

Senate will cease to be a revising chamber

 

Tuesday
December 19, 2006
by : Brian Marlatt
White Rock B.C. : From the west coast we have a similar complaint that the Harper government is ignorant of the basic concepts of the Canadian form of government and their attempts to make improvements are a real danger to the stability and sovereignty of the country.

A different meaning

 

Tuesday
December 19, 2006
by : Edwin Wallace
Success : Going ahead with a barley vote the minister of Agriculture has called a "woe" to action on wheat at the Canadian Wheat Board. Mr. Wallace suspects that the Harper bunch have spotted some reasons to slow things down.

Winter scenes from Northern Saskatchewan

 

Monday
December 18, 2006
by : Timothy W. Shire
Images by : Judy Shire
LaRonge : A set of images taken this weekend that show the world as it appears at this time of the year in the Boreal forest of Northern Canada.

That December look

 

Friday
December 15, 2006
by : Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale : The sun is low on the horizon and the horizon seems far away as the writer reflects on the worsening state of life in rural Saskatchewan. Perhaps its just the time of year, its all about the way you look at things.

Dawn takes Toronto

 

Thursday
December 14, 2006
by : Dawn Shire
Toronto : A set of fourteen images taken during mid November on a visit to Toronto by Regina artist and illustrator, Dawn Shire.

Parkland Photography Club meeting report

 

Wednesday
December 13, 2006
by : Gerald Crawford
Greenwater Provincial Park : This past month's theme was "speed" and the three images displayed do the job. The report tells of getting their displays and slide show in order and alerts members of their next meeting.

Vanishing horizons

 

Tuesday
December 12, 2006
by : Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale : What have we lost when Christmas carols, once sacred song of love and devotion have come to symbolise crass ultra commercialism? When did Santa Claus become Jesus' brother and would banishing him make any real difference? Questions that go beyond our line of sight.

Last day for another house

 

Tuesday
December 12, 2006
by : Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale : A house just west of the SAAN store was destroyed today making room for a new house or freeing up the lot for further development.

The Greenwater Report

 

Monday
December 11, 2006
by : Gerald Crawford
Greenwater Provincial Park : Deep snow has insulated the ice below and poses a threat to snowmobilers who are out in big numbers. The park skating rink is open and in good shape and Gerald has three great pictures for us this week.

Orwellian double-speak at its best! Costing only $300 million

 

Monday
December 11, 2006
by : Eugene Parks
Victoria B.C. : Making declarations about cleaning up the environment or sorting out toxic chemicals makes good headlines but the Federal Environment Ministers appears to be involved in an elaborate smoke screen programme.

Opposition needs to oppose Government Wheat Board destruction

 

Friday
December 8, 2006
by : William Dascavich
Edmonton : Though Liberal leader Dion vows to reinstate the Wheat Board if the government succeeds in destroying the institution by then the damage will not be reversible the need for strong opposition is right now.

To do no harm

 

Friday
December 8, 2006
by : Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale : For every action there is an opposite and equal reaction. Not only we as individuals but we as in our democratic government need to be increasingly aware of the harm that can be produced by the actions our government takes.

Strahl implementing what U.S. failed to achieve

 

Friday
December 8, 2006
by : Joe Hueglin
Niagara Falls, Ontario : The wheat Board has been a thorn in the side of US agricultural policy and now we see the Harper government doing their Republican buddies yet another favour.

Divide and Conquer - Quebecois as a nation within the Dominion of Canada

 

Thursday
December 7, 2006
by : Robert Ede
Richmond Hill, Ontario : A cheap political ploy by the Prime Minister's motion identifying Quebec as a nation has some far reaching and unpleasant results for all Canadians.

Saskatchewan Conservative Party

 

Thursday
December 7, 2006
by : Joyce Neufeld
Waldeck : The attempted destruction of the Canadian Wheat Board by the federal government gets almost full support from the opposition party in the Saskatchewan legislature.

Storming along

 

Wednesday
December 6, 2006
by : Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale : You will have noticed that Ensign has not been updated for the past seven days or so. I dashed off to Winnipeg and this is the story about this adventure.

The Greenwater report

 

Wednesday
December 6, 2006
image by : Gerald Crawford
Greenwater Provincial Park : Archerwill's dinner theatre, storms a trip to Saskatoon, fat deer, a little fishing, a burning car and flipped gravel truck all make up parts of this week's report.

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